Desensitisation in FC
“Don’t dwell. If you dwell, you go mad”
Hilton tells Kingsley
“Believe me, I have sat in holes just like this one and watched men go mad in an afternoon”
Desensitisation in WO Quote
Insensibility
“Happy are these who lose imagination”
“Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.”
AO4 : “Happy are these who lose imagination”
Mimics structure ‘Happy Warrior’ by Wordsworth
AO3 : “Happy are these who lose imagination”
Distance between him and the soldiers who achieved this show through “these”
Criticises the way war requires subduing of emotions
AO2 : “Can laugh among the dying, unconcerned.”
Juxtaposition of laugh and dying shows emotional ceasing of the soldiers